B_L_Angel

Is there any chance you would consider doing these at 32 ?

Announcing the Bolshoi* Protector bonus prize

I spoke with the Admiral last night and he is ok with this, so here is my contribution to his inspired madness.

We all know protector has spirit and loves these events so to celebrate that spirit I am offering a bonus prize.

If 6 teams join the event I will kick in an additional 2 billion inf that will be given away by random drawing amongst 8 players at 250 million per player.

If 8 teams join the amount goes up to 3 billion inf to be randomly distributed amongst 12 players.

Well the were already making the difficult look too easy for words after last Saturday's badging madness its going to be even harder to crank up the difficulty on this superb AT

Congrats to everyone who came as a group we got the following badges

Exterminator
Pirate
Bad luck
Paragon of vice
Hammer down
Mongoose

Now what can challenge a team of veats that have the accolades ?

Well I had a surprise event in mind Saturday, and have been working on having everything ready for this Saturday. I just hope everyone is up for spreading terror in paragon city.

Sign me up Admiral

@black leather angel
Operative 99
Soldier of Arachnos, Crab Spider

This Saturday for a change of pace I was thinking we could go accolade hunting and focus on the pre reqs for the accolades.

I'd like to try for the following arcs

Exterminator from Timothy Raymond
Bad Luck from Hard Luck
Parragon of Vice from Willy Wheeler

If we have time we can do the hunts as well.

The Rikti ? Feh
Honoree ? A pushover.
Hamidon ? Jello ? seriously you were worried about jello ?

The Veats once again Kicked Behinds and really didn't worry much about the names last week



The Tank in the background didn't fare to well either.

I don't know why you say "Goodbye", I say "Hello, hello, hello".

If I were to start a new badger toon, I would do it in a different game.

Badging is much better than it used to be but if you start new from scratch you can't complete now. If you are willing to live with getting just the possible badges, that is still a task that is years away from completion and gets further away with new issues.

The veats once again did a spectacular job last saturday. This time we trounced Statesman and his super pals, really was there ever any question ? It's the fastest growing spectator sport in the Rogue Isles.

Unfortunately my screenshot got corrupted. (Mutters those council so and sos swore the camera was a genuine Leica)

Anyway trying to come up with this saturdays event, I thought, we have thrashed Archus so often he just hands over the crystals when we show, and I heard the Midnighters are replacing the crystal to Cimerora with a revolving door, it's time for something different. So this week, Lady Grey gets the Veat Treatment. She will never be the same again.

Thanks again for organizing the raids. Its really appreciated and few are the people willing to go to the trouble.

Great event Admiral really looking forward to next months wackiness.

Happy birthday and may you enjoy many more.

Put me down for all of these you and layla come up with the best events.

Wow this is one really nice looking issue.

The Veats triumphed once again (was there ever any doubt ? ). Last weeks TF was Ice Mistral again. You can see us up there after we <strike>stripped of everything valuable</strike> cleaned up Archus's cavern. You can see our galant crew of Operative 99, Iudax, Arbiter.Omega, Selvetarm, Mr. Karnage and Sagiri taking a break after a job well done.

I would like to work up to an all Veat LRSF maybe an all Veat MoLRSF but we have been short people at min level or better. If there is interest maybe we can get some things going during the week to help.

For this week I was thinking a quick 1st Treespec followed by a Silver Mantis.

Big congratulations Kyo.

It was another great run for the VEATS on saturday, Mage Archus never knew what hit him. (I think he is a little addled, I mean who lives in a cavern full of exploding crystals ?)

We also managed to kidnap a really ugly mutant midget, and defeated Lady Winter.

Next Saturday: ITF. or LRSF if there is enough interest.

Really small turnout this week. So instead of the VEAT only Madness we teamed up with a group of friendly corruptors and a Tank for an ITF.

Next week I was thinking maybe an all veat incarnate trail ? I'd want to ask for sign ups before hand on this, that way if there isn't enough interest we can try for something else.

Mostly, I have been finding it easier and more enjoyable to badge. I think the devs have really improved the master of badge process with a few exceptions. The problems for me have all been the badges where they have asked you to do something counter to your goals.

The newest trials all have very reasonable badging goals, the TPN trial asks you to get things done quickly,completely or well. You wan't to get the challenges completed quickly, you want to stop the telepathists, and you want to use all the terminals. Getting these badges feels like an accomplishment. The MoM badges are also very good. Defeating the monsters, feels like collecting and is a real improvement on the defeat a couple hundred bosses badges. Defeating Penelope using four eyes or less is a skill challenge. Not letting Aurora's health drop you are playing to your best. Not letting Praetor Tillman reach the well is something you want to do. The underground trial badges for keeping Desdemona's health high, defeating the war walkers quickly and killing all the bombs without getting hurt all seem very well thought out and fun.

The problem badges for me have been the ones that ask you to do things that hurt your chances of achieving the trial's goals. The lambda badges for not getting, or not using temp powers, the Keyes Island badges Anti Anti Matter, and Loves are just asking you to do things that really hurt your chances to succeed and have no comprehensible explanation given why you would want to do these things, or why you should be rewarded for doing them. The Master of B.A.F., strong and pretty, keep em separated also have the problem of no reasons why you want to do them but at least they aren't crippling to achieve.

It would be nice if the Devs went back and changed the Lambda and BAF badges so they awarded for accomplishing things you actually want to accomplish. Examples

Lambda
Lambda Looter => The league gets all the Acids and Grenades in under 5 minutes
AntAcid => The league uses all the Acids on the doors.
Well Stocked => Marauder is not pacified for more than 5 seconds at a time after the first grenade.

Keyes
Anti Anti Matter = > Don't allow Anti Matter's health to drop below 95%
Loves A Challenge = > Complete the final phase with no deaths and in a certain amount of time.

If there were only one of these could get fixed, loves a challenge would have my vote. From my own experience and what I have heard from others this badge causes more pain and resentment than any other. This is the only badge I have heard people say they won't do something because of a badge.

Does the friend get an additional 500 points ? or just the regular 500 points that come with a one month sub ?

Does the 30 days of free time count as a regular one month sub for the person doing the referring ? Do they get their regular points, and token ?

Sorry if these questions seem obvious but I don't want to accidentally lie to people because I didn't understand the promotion

This week, if my connection holds up the Strike Force will be an Ice Mistral.

And Here is last weeks Operative Renault.



As usual the V.E.A.T.S were chewing bubble gum and kicking behinds (I think we ran out of bubble gum real quick )